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Summary: Succeed in the programming interview & get the job you want!
Review: Whether you are a veteran programmer seeking a new position, or a whiz-kid starting your career, interviewing for a programming job requires special preparation. The interview is likely to consist of an hour-long interactive oral exam in computers, programming, and logic. This helpful guide will give you the tools necessary to breeze through the test and make a lasting impression that will get you a top dollar offer! Mongan and Suojanen take you step-by-step through the same problems that they were asked on technical interviews. These veterans use their experience with the technical interview process to prepare you for any situation. With their help, you'll gain critical interviewing skills such as how to ask effective questions, how to best approach a problem, and what to do when you get stuck. Integrated throughout the book are problems taken from real interviews at top computer companies, followed by an in-depth analysis and explanation of the thought process leading to solutions. By focusing on techniques and not just answers, you'll be able to apply what you learn to the wide variety of problems you will face during an interview. The problems included in this book will challenge your programming skills and help you ace the programming interview! Problem types include: * Programming problems, with emphasis on data structures and recursion
* Logic puzzles, counting and measuring problems, and spatial reasoning
* Knowledge-based problems that cover today's most important technologies JOHN MONGAN graduated from Stanford with a BS in Chemistry. He is a self-taught programmer and has been working as a consultant for Autodesk for the past two years. He has three pending patents on software testing and related technologies. NOAH SUOJANEN graduated from Stanford with a BS in Computer Science. He has worked for USWeb and Boeing and is currently working for contact.com.
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Summary: Fun book
Review: A great book if you a programmer, or if you in a position to interview people. I had a set of questions I would ask people, and this book definetly gives me a whole new set questions to interview people! It's also a fun read if you are a programmer, and want to brush up on your skills. I went through technical interviews at 10 companies 3 years ago, including Trilogy, and this book has a lot of great questions. The only bad part is it's pretty weak on soft interview questions, but there are other good books out there for that.
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Summary: If you are applying TA at school, it is good.
Review: Basically, most people in industries will not give question like that particularly those need you to provide solutions. If a interviewer were to give those kind of questions to you, it means you meet a HR person or the person who just graduated from school. Your will be managers might not know all terms throughly, but they know what kind of people they need. If you are looking for a programming job, please do some research to find what technology might be useful to them.
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Summary: Great review of a number of common topics
Review: Ever try to study for Jeopardy? That's what it's like to prepare for a tech interview these days! I've found this book to be a great collection of common topics that interviewers tend to ask in one volume. The major of the book's examples are written in C - the interviewer's language of choice - and it tends to be platform independent with examples and coverage of topics. A must have for any programmer looking for a job or for a tech manager that's been tasked with staffing a programming team.
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Summary: byte and bit your interview
Review: Having gone through a number of technical interviews, this book definitely hits home. It includes questions I have encountered in interviews and actually came in handy when I interviewed for my current position. That said, the most important thing a candidate needs to have is the ability to actually do the job. While studying this book will give you an edge in an interview, the candidate still has to ensure that he has the skills to get the job done.
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Summary: Great review, but lacking a few topics
Review: I found this a great review for thinking about programming interviews after some time away from the industry. The reviewer who claimed that no one would ever ask you about linked lists or trees in an interview has clearly never interviewed at Microsoft. ;) I think a section on sorting algorithms rather than the recursion review would have been more helpful. The authors generally do a nice job of explaining the approaches to various problems, though their occasional switch between languages felt a bit random. (Most examples are in C.)
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Summary: Very Effective Started Book...
Review: I got exact questions asked from this book in an interview !!Could not believe myself but aced them nonetheless. Looks like interviewers pick questions from this book as well. It is a good warm up practice book to make you more confident and cover basics. It has some good problems which you should practice. You will be asked similar coding questions to be solved on the board in an interview...
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Summary: Good to refresh lost touch!!
Review: I have several yrs of programming experience and somehow I felt that I have lost the touch I once used to have and was feeling shaky. Got this book, so far its amazing. Ok I have not completed this book yet but so far whatever questions I have seen I was asked in some interviews and thats amazing. The only issue with the examples (thats y 4 stars) is examples are in C, cud have been in C++. But still its not a big deal and looks like it is done for more audience coverage. In an interview if u can find 50% of the questions from this book then u r almost done and sure to land the job.
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Summary: Excellent book - it got me my job :)
Review: I read this book from cover to cover before going in for a job interview and it was EXTREMELY useful. It is especially good for someone who needs a refresher on certain topics that they have not encountered recently. Besides the sample questions, the book gets into the mind of the interviewer and what they are looking for. It is a must get !
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Summary: A Good Primer
Review: I thought I could handle any technical inteview... then I got an interview with Microsoft. I began asking my friends what it was like and most of them said it was brutal. I took a look around and read good reviews about this book and decided to pick it up. Was I surprised! The book had a wealth of information about programming questions! As well, the book took a good look into problem solving puzzles. I read the book immediately and worked through some of the examples and was very happy with the outcome. The questions Microsoft asked were not "from the book" but required the thought process that the book helps you assume. Definitely a good buy for anyone looking to do a good review of data structures and problem solving.
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